This steam engine builder began operations in 1889, and within a decade had expanded considerably.

Information Sources

• Commemorative Biographical Record of Fairfield County, Connecticut, 1899.

  SAMUEL E. DUNHAM, proprietor of the Dunham Machine Works at Danbury... does an extensive business manufacturing boilers, engines and machines of kind kinds, including special machinery built to order, and furnishing mill supplies, such as shafting, hangers and pulleys, also Babbitt, and all grades of anti-friction metals.

  Mr. Dunham was born April 6, 1861, in Danbury, the sons of Frederick N. Dunham, a native of St. Lawrence county, N. Y. ... [he] was educated in the schools of Danbury, at at the age of seventeen began to learn the machinist's trade, spending about five years in the establishment of Fanton Brothers. He then worked in various places as a journeyman, and for two years was in charge of a machine shop in Danbury. In 1889 he began his present business in a small way, with a capital of $800, the venture succeeding so well that in 1893 he built his establishment on Rose street, and his property is now valued at about $17,000. This success has not been gained without severe labor, however, and he considers fifteen hours per day a fair allowance.